RBINS metadata catalog
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Mammal collection
The mammal collection of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences contains 42,000 specimens and includes significant osteological material (bones and skeletons). The best represented groups are bats, rodents, carnivores and primates. The Institute has type material for 27 species. The rodent collection was extended by RBINS biologist Xavier Misonne. Walter Verheyen built up the collection of fauna from Belgium and Papua New Guinea, and Jacques Verschuren put together a large collection of mammal specimens from Africa.
The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Mammalia collection contains 59893 digitised specimens of 2274 taxa. The following classes are included: Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758, Reptilia Laurenti, 1768
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- 2021-01-25
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v1.8
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be_rbins_vertebrates_mammalia
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences IPT dataset identifier
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natural history collection
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RBINS
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DaRWIN
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Mammalia
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Specimen
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
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- Begin date
- 1822-01-01
- End date
- 2017-09-16
- Topology level
- Geometry only
Distributor
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Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A)
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Comma-separated values (CSV) file
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- The csv file and the Darwin Core Archive as found on the GBIF portal. ( http )
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Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A)
- OnLine resource
- The Darwin Core Archive as found on the IPT of the data publisher. ( http )
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- Dataset
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The dataset has been data managed in order to be stored as Darwin Core archive: taxa were matched and columns were mapped with DarwinCore headers.
- File identifier
- rbins:dataset::be_rbins_vertebrates_mammalia XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2021-01-25
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Geographic Information — Metadata Part 1: Fundamentals
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ISO 19115-1:2014(E)
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